FICTION – YA FICTION
Melvin Burgess has been writing fiction for young people since his first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. His 1996 novel Junk kick-started the YA genre and achieved great acclaim at home and abroad. It won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal and was recently voted one of the top ten Carnegie winners ever. He has won many other awards over the years, including the LA YA Book of the Year Award for Doing It. He has continued to publish popular, controversial and cutting edge fiction for young people ever since.
He had had two books out in 2021 – ‘Count,’ illustrated by Chris Mould, for younger readers and his latest YA, ‘Three Bullets,’ one of three books by different authors set in the same dystopian UK of a possible near future.
Melvin can help you with structuring your work,
and finding balance for the various elements – character, plot and pacing.
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